50 Demonstrators Detained In Scuffle With Riot Police

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July 22, 2004

MINSK, Belarus -- Police scuffled with protesters in Belarus as a few thousand people gathered to demonstrate against President Alexander Lukashenko, and a rights group said about 50 opponents of the authoritarian leader were detained. Riot police with truncheons fought with some of the mostly young protesters who assembled in a square in the center of the capital, Minsk, before heading to a park for a planned demonstration.